“Nerdy Birdy Tweets” is a children’s book written by Aaron Reynolds. It’s about two BFFs (Bird Friends Forever), Vulture and Nerdy Birdy, and how their differences can both unite them and keep them apart. Nerdy Birdy is a gamer, and so when he tweets a tweet about Vulture’s gross road-kill eating habits on his new gaming and socializing app, Tweetster, Vulture gets offended and decides that she no longer wants to be Nerdy Birdy’s friend. Nerdy Birdy realizes this a little too late, and so he must earn his friend back. After a load-some of efforts their friendship is regained, and so they decide to spend some time doing the things the other bird likes, but also finding things they both enjoy doing. In my opinion, this is a great book. It is both imaginative and realistic. I think it’s imaginative because, well, there are talking birds on Banana cellphones playing video games, but it being imaginative is a good thing since this is, after all, a children’s book. The realistic component of it kind of hits hard though. I say that because if you really think about it, Nerdy Birdy is so caught up in his cellphone (which he doesn’t even need) that he forgets about his best friend’s feelings. That seems to happen more than we want it to in the human society. How realistic is this is makes it sort of scary.  This being a children’s book means that children as early as the age of 3 or 4 have to be warned about not getting addicted to a phone screen. Why should children at that age even need to worry about such a thing? The company Apple doesn’t even allow someone under the age of 13 to have an Apple ID, so why is this an issue? I wish I could say that I knew an affective way to decrease the use of cellphones in everyday life, but I really don’t know how. This task is even made more difficult because I can get addicted to my phone at times too. I’ve never forgotten about my offline friends like Nerdy Birdy did, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t gone on my phone when I could have been doing something with my bestie either. All-in-all, this book is simple, but carries a powerful message. I would recommend anyone who uses a cellphone in their daily life to read this book because it may not impact them by much, but it will by at least a little. That is why I would also give this book 4.5/5 stars as a rating.

Kobi Yamada and Mae Besorn had an idea, and that was to write and illustrate the children’s book “What Do You Do With An Idea?”. This book is about a boy having an idea. He tries to run away from his idea, and when he finally decides to share it with everyone else, they reject it, but he doesn’t give up on his idea. After nourishing the idea for a little while, the idea grows and unleashes itself into the world. It doesn’t end up hurting anyone. Instead, it lets people see in colour. In my opinion, this is a beautifully written, inspirational book. It encourages all of the dreamers out there, whether they are big or small, Mexican or Russian, to follow their dreams. I myself had an idea that I thought of as impossible. When I was younger, I imagined bribing the king of Iran with lots of money in order to gain the throne. I would then have lead Iran in a more positive direction. I would have protested instead bribed someone, but all protesting has gotten Iran in the past was many deaths. My idea shrunk over time because how in the world was I, a middle-class citizen, going to earn a few billion dollars to use as bribe money? After reading this book, I still think that this idea is pretty close to impossible, but that doesn’t mean that other ideas regarding this topic won’t come to mind. Maybe, just maybe, one of those ideas would be possible to do. I’m sure that a tremendous amount of other people can relate to this book, and I hope that this book gave them as much hope as I was given today. That’s why I would give this book a 5-star-rating. I’m no book critique meaning this post might only be read by 2 or 3 people , but I hope that those 2 or 3 people decide to read this book if they haven’t already. I hope that by reading this book, those 2 or 3 people gain enough confidence to change the world.